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Indian fashion chains are betting big on the consumption story here
as American chains shut stores, amid competition from online
retailers. (Business Standard)
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Indian fashion stores look for expansion, US counterparts shut many
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Food
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Logistics of food grains like pulses, wheat, rice
and perishable products like meat, fruits and vegetables contribute the
maximum to the Indian economy. But, food grain logistics sector in
India needs immediate attention of Indian government and private
organisations. (Cargo
Connect)
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Global marquee fashion and lifestyle brands such
as Gap, Zara and
The Body Shop are resorting to price cuts to stay competitive and
increase their market share in the price-sensitive Indian
market. (The
Economic Times)
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Marquee
labels including Gap, Zara to come with smaller price tags
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Taj
Brings All Its Hotels Under Single Brand
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Less than seven years after launching the Vivanta
brand and four
years after inaugurating its first Gateway property, Indian Hotels Co
Ltd. has decided to re-brand the two verticals and bring them back
under the Taj Group brand. (BloombergQuint)
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To expand its storage capacity in India, Amazon
had opened its largest Fulfilment Centre in Sonipat, Haryana. US-based
e-commerce giant Amazon took about a million square feet of office
spaces on lease last year, making it equal to what it took between 2008
and 2015 in the country. (Business
Standard)
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Amazon
hires record level of office property in 2016
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Are
India's Startups At Risk Of Meddling From Their VC Investors?
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Some experts tracking the ecosystem have written
about the number of
years left before “impatient investors take control of the startups” –
but how well founded are these suspicions? (Forbes)
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Paper Boat, a fledgling Indian brand from
Bangalore-based Hector
Beverages, is aiming to hold its own in the country against global
giants like Coca-Cola and PepsiCo. But can traditional Indian drinks
really give popular colas and juices a run for their money? (Knowledge@Wharton)
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Can
an Ethnic Beverage Brand Challenge Coca-Cola in India?
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Will
Ayush Makeover Help HUL In Southern Ayurvedic Market?
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As demand for ayurvedic products grows, especially
driven by Yoga guru
Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurved Ltd., FMCG major Hindustan Unilever
Ltd. has relaunched its Lever Ayush brand in southern India, the
biggest and most competitive market in the space. (BloombergQuint)
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As demand for ayurvedic products grows, especially
driven by Yoga
guru Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurved Ltd., FMCG major Hindustan
Unilever Ltd. has relaunched its Lever Ayush brand in southern India,
the biggest and most competitive market in the space. (The Economic Times)
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Women’s
ethnic wear tailors growth
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CashKaro
may be profitable in 18-20 months
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Affiliate marketing site CashKaro has collaborated
with 1200
e-retailers including many category leaders like Flipkart,Amazon, etc.
and may collaborate with off-line retailers shortly. (Retailer)
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The year 2016 will go down in history as a
tumultuous one for
India's new economy companies that utilise the reach of the Internet to
do business. Despite consensus that market was fundamentally strong,
firms struggled with funding and valuations. (Business Standard)
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2016:
The year start-ups began their call for protectionism
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eBay
India’s sales jump 3-fold, but losses mount
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The company posted revenue or income of Rs 392
crore for the fiscal
2015-16, according to its annual filing to the Registrar of Companies.
It's revenue stood at Rs 132 crore in the previous fiscal. (The Economic Times)
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The contribution of private labels in India’s
online shopping
segment is expected to triple to around $5 billion in 2017 as e-tailers
try to boost earnings and fill gaps in the market in high-margin
categories such as fashion, furniture and home decor. (Business Standard)
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Private
labels to become a $5-bn business for e-tailers in 2017
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Amazon
on a high in India
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Amazon’s largest seller Cloudtail surpassed the
country’s largest
department chain Shoppers Stop by revenues which grew fourfold during
the year to March 2016, highlighting the growing popularity of online
buying as well as of Jeff Bezos’ company in India. (The Economic Times)
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Under the joint venture with Reliance Brands,
Bally plans to open
its first store at the DLF Emporio mall in New Delhi in March 2017. (Mint)
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Bally
eyes India comeback with Reliance
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Life
After Startups
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The entrepreneur overcoming all hurdles to emerge
as an icon for
millions – that’s the typical positive story startup media is abuzz
with. Such narratives are often considered the only way to attain
startup goals. In the clamor, we can forget that each startup journey
is unique: before tasting success, even successful entrepreneurs have
faced failure. (TechInAsia)
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India, which is one of the fastest growing e-tail
markets around the
globe, is the third country after China and Mexico to get the Amazon
Global Store. This move will no doubt help Amazon compete more
vigorously against Flipkart. More importantly, perhaps, it will also
help strengthen the company’s arsenal against the imminent entry of
Walmart — the world’s largest brick-and-mortar retailer and its arch
rival. (Knowledge@Wharton)
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Walmart
vs. Amazon: Is India the Next Battleground?
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Markdowns
A Good Wake-Up Call For E-Commerce Companies
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Investors BloombergQuint spoke to said that a
markdown in valuation
is a much-needed market correction which will bring maturity in the
Indian startup ecosystem that saw euphoric valuations over the last two
years. (BloombergQuint)
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The Chinese player has adopted a plan to build its
footprint rapidly
with lower capital investment. However, that might mean less control on
the overall customerexperience. (Forbes)
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Haier
Takes the Multi-Brand Channel Route
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Flipkart,
Ola struggle to raise funds at peak valuations
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Indian unicorns such as Flipkart and Ola are
struggling to raise
fresh funds at valuations higher than or equal their last funding round
as investors see them ceding market share to global rivals such as
Amazon and Uber in the country. (Business Standard)
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After a successful stint online, e-commerce
companies in India are
now venturing into a world they thought they would drive into
extinction: the brick and mortar space. (Forbes)
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India's
Etailers Opening Brick & Mortar Stores
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Desktop
Vs. App: Which Strategy Is Best For India's Businesses?
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India, along with China, is one of the world’s
fastest-growing mobile app markets, but is it ready for app-only
businesses? (Forbes)
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Rocket Internet’s $70-million fire sale of Jabong
has turned out to
be a great deal for Flipkart. The online giant has managed to turn
around the fashion portal in four months, scoring a mark over rival
Amazon. (Business
Standard)
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Flipkart
has found gold in Jabong
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Procter
& Gamble plans Walmart-like pact with Future Group
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Procter & Gamble (P&G), the
world’s biggest consumer goods
company, is exploring a long-term partnership with Kishore Biyani’s
Future Group akin to the one it has with Walmart in the US, that could
involve joint sales forecasting and planning, exclusive product
releases, embedding officials at each others’ headquarters and even
supply-chain initiatives. (The
Economic Times)
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Rather than investing in their own stores,
e-commerce marketplaces
are partnering with local merchants who can assist offline buyers in
purchasing goods online. (Business
Standard)
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Festive
sales: Amazon, Flipkart are now going offline in smaller towns
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E-commerce
space widens this Diwali, more buyers outside metros
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Large e-tailers including Amazon, Snapdeal and
Flipkart argue they
are at an inflection point where e-commerce becomes universal in the
country. (Business
Standard)
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Online festival sales and the big billion day
sales are presumably
happy times for customers going by the units sold claims by online
market places. However, they are creating much heartburn for some of
the white good manufacturers whose products are being sold at prices
below what they are being sold at the company showrooms or at the
retailer’s end. (Firstpost)
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Are
online discount sales affecting white goods' brand perception?
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Online
baby products seller FirstCry to acquire BabyOye
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Online baby products seller FirstCry is acquiring
offline retailer
Mahindra BabyOye for Rs 362.1 crore in a primarily stock deal, a
development that signals how building an offline presence is becoming
important for vertical etailers. (The Economic Times)
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Its winning formula: Indian flavours, snazzy
packaging, funky
digital marketing focussed on stirring nostalgia through storytelling. (The Hindu Businessline)
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How
Paper Boat rowed against the tide to find success
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Supam
Maheshwari Has a Way of Mothering Impossible Dreams
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By consolidating its largest competitor,
Mahindra's BabyOye, the
42-year-old Maheshwari will now be the CEO of by far the largest baby
and mothercare retailer in India, both online and offline. (The Economic Times)
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India's two largest e-commerce players are looking
to use the
country's biggest festive sales season this week to bolster their
valuations as they seek fresh capital and look to fend off Amazon's
growing inroads into the domestic market. (Yahoo)
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E-commerce
firms slug it out this festival season
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Shopping
in online festive sales? Here is what you should know
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The coming festive season is no longer just about
discounts and
deals, but also about which player succeeds in roping in the maximum
customers towards its platform. (Financial
Express)
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Walmart Stores is in advanced discussions to
invest as much as $1
billion (Rs 6,647 crore) into Flipkart Online Services, as the two
companies battle Amazon in the e-commerce space, according to a person
familiar with the matter.
(Business Standard)
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Walmart-Flipkart
talks for $1-bn investment
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E-tailers
focus on services to drive sales
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The coming festive season is no longer just about
discounts and
deals, but also about which player succeeds in roping in the maximum
customers towards its platform. (Financial
Express)
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Considering the country's projected GDP growth and
rise in
disposable incomes, mall developers are hopeful that the luxury market
will also evolve. But, today most luxury stores often look deserted. (Business
Today)
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Dismal
Affair
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The
man who stoked India’s voracious appetite for pizzas
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India’s prodigious craving for pizza, especially
with a generous
helping of paneer or chicken tikka, remains unchanged. However, the man
who helped stoke this appetite, Ajay Kaul, has announced his departure
from his position as head of Jubilant Foodworks. (Quartz)
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Thailand-based quick service restaurant chain Five
Star Chicken has
shut down 133 outlets in India in the past five months owing to
sluggish growth even as it seeks to push sales, and opens 3-4 new
stores each month. (The Economic Times)
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Five
Star Chicken shuts 133 outlets in India
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Foreign
brands stick to franchise model in India
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Of the 28 foreign brands that entered India after
implementation of
100% FDI in single-brand retail, 23 came in through a franchise. (Mint)
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Fabindia has travelled a long way from being set
up as an export
shop selling home furnishings to overseas customers, to being a brand
recognised internationally. (Quartz)
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Fabindia:
from rural crafts to high-end stores
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India
Inc’s GenNext dreams digital
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Going digital seems to be the mantra for some of
India Inc’s generation-next. The
new generation not only wants to carve a niche for itself by getting
into the online ventures but also plans to take on the digital
biggies. (The
Hindu Businessline)
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The first financial quarter results for 2016 by
Aditya Birla Fashion
& Retail tell an interesting story. The numbers show a dip in
the
performance of Madura Fashion, the arm that holds licenses for several
premium global brands, but a spike for Pantaloons, its offline retail
venture that focuses on value fashion. (Business Standard)
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Pantaloons
tips scales for Aditya Birla Fashion
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Going
beyond bargain hunters
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Affiliate marketers face the heat as e-commerce
players lower
commission for repeat customers. Is the coupon and cashback business
soon going to go out of style? (Financial Express)
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The Indian defence services could teach the
country’s top private retailers a thing or two about making
money. (Quartz)
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India’s
most profitable retail chain is run by the country’s armed forces
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Disrupting
Distribution
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From predictive demand management systems to
automated warehouses using robots, supply chain management is going
hi-tech. (The Hindu Businessline)
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With discounts raining down in ecommerce, the
question that begs an
answer is are themarketplaces flouting the rules while offering these
discounts. (Firstpost)
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Ecommerce
discounts: Is the govt tying itself up in knots?
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Myntra
plus Jabong may help Flipkart win the game
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More than two years after Flipkart founders Sachin
Bansal and Binny
Bansal had announced acquisition of fashion portal Myntra at a
high-street restaurant in Bengaluru, the action shifted to New Delhi’s
Connaught Place. Myntra has now acquired German investor Rocket
Internet-backed Jabong for $70 million to stamp out competition in the
high-margin fashion space. (Business Standard)
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Myntra has bought Jabong for $70 million giving it
a new lease of life. (WWD)
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Myntra
buys Jabong
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Pokemon
GO stokes retailer interest
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Augmented reality mobile game has opened numerous
branding opportunities and the biggest at the moment is for this
segment. (Business Standard)
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Spanish fashion brand Zara posted its slowest
sales growth in India during the year ended March. Inditex
Trent, the joint venture between Zara brand owner Inditex and Tata
Group's retail arm Trent, clocked a 17% sales growth during
FY16. (The Economic Times)
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Zara
moderates growth in India
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Wildcraft:
backpackers with Rs 300 crore sales
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From a Bengaluru garage 23 years ago, outdoor
gearmaker Wildcraft
now logs sales worth Rs 300 crore. And the journey has only begun. (Forbes
India)
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Big Bazaar is consolidating its acquisitions and
also upscaling its store formats with shifts in the consumer market. (The
Hindu Businessline)
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Big
Bazaar integrates Easyday stores
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Lifestyle
International plans expansion
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Lifestyle International, the Bengaluru-based
retailer, has set a
target of becoming a billion-dollar (nearly Rs 6,750 crore) turnover
company by March 2017 by adding more stores, a top official said. (The
Economic Times)
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While currently a mobile wallet business typically
covers fund
transfers, services related to e-commerce transactions like utility and
bill payments, ticketing, and recharges, offline commerce is expected
to drive good traction. (Financial Express)
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Putting
mobile wallets through convenience test
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E-commerce:
a friend, a foe
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Apart from changing business models, mall
operators are also
benefitting from the challenging times in the e-commerce
space. (The Hindu Businessline)
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Industry fears that surging Islamist violence may
imperil Bangladesh
economy built on cheaply supplying fashion to the world's big-name
brands. (AFP/The New Indian Express)
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Bangladesh
garment industry fears for future
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Mobile
wallets bet on offline
stores to reach
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Mobile wallets are expanding their
scale of operations and tying up with offline merchants to move beyond
recharge-related services, DTH and bill payments. (AFP/The
New Indian Express)
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The Indian government announced that the Seventh
Pay Commission
award and revised salaries of central government employees are likely
to be paid from July 1, 2016. The e-commerce sector is likely to
benefit, but not immediately. (DNA - Daily News &
Analysis)
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Expect
more e-commerce promotional offers
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Etailers
scaling up physical presence
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Some of India's largest online stores including
baby products
retailer Firstcry, eyewear brand Lenskart and furniture marketplace
Pepperfry are beginning to see significant contributions to revenue and
bottomline from their physical stores. (The Times of India)
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The gleaming glass atriums and blue-clad
“geniuses” that herald the
arrival of an Apple store could soon be landing in India, after the
government cleared the way for it to open in the rapidly growing
smartphone market. (AFP/Hindustan Times)
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Apple
free to take bite out of India after FDI rule change
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Apparel
brand US Polo tops Rs 1,000 crore India sales in FY16
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US Polo crossed the Rs 1,000-crore sales mark in
India in the fiscal
ending March 31, less than five years after it entered the country,
according to a top executive of the company. (The Economic
Times)
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Smart pricing and efficient merchandising
strategies are helping the
Dubai-based fashion retailer expand its label in the Indian market. (Business
Standard)
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Max
finds a niche, marks its spot
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H&M
to double store count in India by year-end
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Swedish fashion retailer Hennes and Mauritz
(H&M) on Monday said
it will double the number of its stores in India from six to
12
by year-end. (Mint)
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Apple Inc. may be closer to opening stores in
India after the
government eased onerous local sourcing requirements on
retailers. (Bloomberg)
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Apple
Closer to India Stores As Government Eases Curbs
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Malls
go all out to lure fashion brands
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To drive footfalls and attract brand value, mall
developers across
the country are rolling out the red carpet for prominent chains. In the
wake of 2 yrs of low footfall, malls are offering longer rent-free
periods, long leases & capex on fit-outs. (Business
Standard)
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Alibaba Group Holdings is looking to buy, or
invest in, an Indian
logistics company specialising in deliveries for online retail players,
and towards this end has held talks with Delhivery and Xpressbees
Logistics, according to two people aware of the development. (The
Economic Times)
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Alibaba
in investment talks with Delhivery and Xpressbees Logistics
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Amazon
betting $5 billion on India
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Amazon founder & CEO Jeff Bezos said that
the company is
planning to invest an additional $3 billion in its India operations,
coming nearly two years after the Seattle-based online retail giant
announced plans to pump in $2 billion. (The Economic
Times)
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Amazon has invested an additional Rs 1,350 crore
(about $200
million) in its India unit this year, as it seeks to accelerate the
momentum gained in the past 18 months. (The Economic
Times)
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Amazon
India's US$200m injection for growth
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Tata's
technology to make ecommerce CliQ
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The Tata Group says it is a creating a
'one-of-its-kind,
omnichannel' marketplace which would allow customers to ship-to-stores,
collect-from-stores and return-to-stores. (The Economic Times)
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Flipkart's new big strategy is to cross-sell its
services — as well
as its customers — to its biggest clients. Chief Executive Binny Bansal
has stitched together a plan to cross-sell Flipkart's commerce, supply
chain and advertising services to its top-selling merchants and
deep-pocketed brands such as Samsung. (The Economic
Times)
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Flipkart’s
commerce, supply chain, advertising services
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Forever
21 looks to script a new story in India
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The Birlas hope to get a grip on the slippery fast
fashion market
while the global label hopes to get third-time lucky with its Indian
partner. (Business Standard)
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Companies like Apple fall under the category of
being “charismatic”
organizations wherein people set apart by specific exceptional
qualities head these entities. So, what happens when it's time for the
star leader to leave the organization? (Entrepreneur)
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Superstar
CEOs: A Tough Act To Follow
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Snapdeal
bars sellers from giving more than 70% discount
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Snapdeal has barred sellers on its platform from
giving more than
70% discount on the maximum retail price on most products from May 13,
as the ecommerce firm aims to tackle the increasing return of
merchandise from buyers. (The Economic Times)
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Ecommerce platform Snapdeal has integrated
UrbanClap inventory in
its Android mobile application to launch a personal services category,
which will help consumers book services ranging from beauty services at
home to wedding photographers. (The Economic Times)
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Snapdeal
ties up with UrbanClap services
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On
the shoulders of brands
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Vijay Mallya is certainly not alone in using a
well-known brand to
raise money — companies across sectors use brand valuation to meet a
range of business needs. (The Hindu Businessline)
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Biyani, chairman of one of India’s biggest
retailers, has long
flip-flopped on his stance on the country’s booming ecommerce industry.
The man, who once publicly challenged Flipkart and its rivals’ selling
strategies, eventually ended up opening a store on Amazon, and then
went on to buy online furniture retailer FabFurnish from Rocket
Internet. (TechInAsia)
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Apps,
websites, and a wallet: Biyani takes on startups
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Kishore
Biyani reboots for the digital era
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As the lines between offline and online retail
blur, India's retail
king is tweaking his strategy to stay ahead of the competition. (Business
Standard)
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Walmart, the world's largest retailer, is
interested in selling food
products directly to Indian consumers both by setting up
brick-and-mortar as well as online stores, but it will take a final
decision after evaluating the policy guidelines that will be notified
by the government, said the head of its India unit. (The
Economic Times)
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Walmart
interested in both physical and online retail in India
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Global
buyers roll back into property
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Apple is said to be in talks to take 30,000 sq ft
retail space at
Maker Maxity, while IKEA is in talks to buy 350,000 square feet (sq ft)
in Oberoi Realty, and signed up for a 26-acre land parcel in Navi
Mumbai’s Turbhe area from a Tata group firm. (Business
Standard)
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Paytm plans an aggressive expansion of its online
travel business by
branching out into rail, road, airline and tour bookings in order to
drive more traffic to its portal that is largely payments driven. (The
Economic Times)
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Paytm
plans aggressive expansion of online travel business
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Zero discounts on Patanjali
products
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The Patanjali Group relies on brand loyalty, and
says that most of its goods are cheaper than those of other FMCGs. (The
Hindu)
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While the new policy for foreign direct investment
(FDI) in the
fast-growing e-commerce sector has been welcomed by several lobby
groups and offline retailers, experts note that a few implications of
the new guidelines could leave some online players in a fix. (Indiaretailing.com)
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FDI
in e-comm: End of pseudo marketplace models
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India sets rules for foreign investment
in e-commerce
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The long-awaited rules permit full foreign
ownership of sites that connect online buyers to sellers. (AFP/The
Times of India)
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Be it consumer products, lifestyle or
entertainment, spiritual gurus are stepping into business and are
finding success. (Business Standard)
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'Gurunomics'
fuels consumer boom
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Zara faces the H&M heat
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Swedish label H&M is stepping hard on
Spanish rival Zara's toes in the premium apparel market. (Business
Standard)
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Bakarwadi – the crispy, deep-fried, disc-shaped
snack that has fans
across India – is believed to have originated in Gujarat. But if you
were under the impression that it is a typically Maharashtrian
preparation, it is probably because of Raghunathrao Chitale, the
founder and owner of Pune’s iconic Chitale Bandhu Mithaiwale food and
dairy brand. (Scroll.in)
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How
spicy bakarwadis became a popular Indian tea-time snack
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Alibaba may tieup with Tatas to venture
into online market in India
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Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba has approached
Tata Sons for a
possible partnership as it looks to set up shop in India later this
year in a development that looks set to shake up the country's rapidly
growing online retail market. (The Economic Times)
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Purchase of cars, bikes, or gold jewellery can
give immense
pleasure, but is a labourious exercise. E-commerce companies are trying
to change just that. (The New Indian Express)
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Now, e-Grab High-Value Goods
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Can an App-only E-commerce Model Succeed
in India?
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Apps of course come with a long list of advantages
for both the
companies and customers: Personalization, better user interface,
superior customer experience, ability to easily connect anytime and
anywhere, rich customer data and so on. But is an app-only strategy the
right one for a market like India. (Knowledge @ Wharton)
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Foreign supermarkets are looking to gain ground in
India but a
western-style retail sector may not help tackle agricultural
shortcomings. (The Guardian)
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Walmart and Tesco won’t help India’s food
security problems
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Snapdeal integrates Redbus, Zomato,
Cleartrip inventory
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Snapdeal has integrated Redbus, Zomato and
Cleartrip inventory in
its mobile application as a pilot that will help customers book bus
tickets, flight tickets, hotel tickets and food directly from the
application. (The Economic Times)
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Snapdeal and Amazon India lost market share
in 2015, according to the research arm of Morgan Stanley, as online
shopping options grew rapidly in India and established etailers cut
back on discounts. But Flipkart managed to marginally increase its
share and the Big Three, despite a fall in combined market share,
accounted for more than 80% of the total market.. (The
Economic Times)
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Etail giants like Snapdeal, Amazon
lose market share
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Will the Union Budget bring an end to the
e-commerce conundrum?
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Online retail constitutes just one percent of
India’s total retail. Yet, out of the country’s nine startup Unicorns,
three are major online commerce players. Estimated to touch $38 billion
in 2016, Indian e-commerce industry has grown impressively. However,
hurdles for its potential growth are many – most of which related to
government norms. (Your Story)
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Having created quite a stir at the time of their
launch, hyperlocal companies are now witnessing a dampened mood.
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Big bang later, hyperlocal companies
losing steam
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Patanjali, Baba's billion-dollar baby
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Patanjali Ayurved Ltd today is not just about amla
juice and chyawanprash. It sells around 500 consumer goods, from
ayurveda-based products to staples such as clarified butter (ghee),
pulses and edible oils to personal products such as toothpaste, hair
care and skin cleansers and processed food products such as noodles,
biscuits and juices. (VCCIrcle)
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There is no doubt that the startup Dawailelo’s
decision to function in Tier II cities is an incredible one. The
healthcare services market in these cities is still unorganised, with
people going by what their neighbours and relatives say, rather than a
doctor’s qualification. (Your Story)
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These entrepreneurs chose to start in
Varanasi and Panipat over Delhi
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Offline to online: Paytm onboards
appliances retailers
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Paytm is tying up with mobile and large appliance
retailers to list their brick-and-mortar stores on its ecommerce
platform as part of its omni-channel strategy. (The Economic
Times)
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Till a couple of years ago, the idea of hyperlocal
services in Tier II cities would have been unthinkable. The whole point
of hyperlocal services is instant gratification. A comparatively slower
pace of life, poor Internet penetration, and a reluctance to adapt
technology were expected to be roadblocks for such services. But the
startup boom that India has witnessed over the past few years has
ensured that some daring entrepreneurs have ventured into these
untapped markets beyond the metros. (Your Story)
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Will hyperlocal services find success in
tier 2 cities?
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Aditya Birla Retail piles up Rs
5,320-crore loss
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Aditya Birla Retail reported a 15% increase in its
sales for the last financial year but it continues to pile up losses,
according to latest available numbers. (The Economic Times)
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Visual search start-ups help companies enable
their users to discover products online, based on photos of objects in
the real world. (MINT)
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Visual search start-ups in e-commerce
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Mahindra Retail to bring in US kidswear
brand Carter’s
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Mahindra Retail, a part of the $16.9 billion
Mahindra Group, will sell products of US kidswear firm Carter’s Inc. in
its chain of BabyOye stores across India and online. (Mint)
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During 2014-15, the firm posted a 12% rise in
consolidated sales at Rs 1,148 crore with 36% increase in profit before
exceptional items at Rs 112 crore. (The Economic
Times)
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Fabindia crosses Rs 1,000 crore in sales
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Amazon India to deliver packages using
bicycles
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Amazon is running a pilot programme on delivering
packages in India's biggest cities over distances of 3-5 km — by
bicycle. It was debuted in Mumbai last month and has been expanded to
Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Delhi and Chennai. The programme is set to be
extended to more cities. (The Economic Times)
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Discount sale on winterwear has started in the
middle of the season, as an unusually warm winter has hurt demand,
forcing top brands to tweak their strategies. (The Economic
Times)
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Mild winter forces brands to offer more
sops
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Tata Group set to crowdsource ideas for
new products
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Consumers could have a say in the watch or even
car produced by the Tata Group as its companies strengthen social media
and digital platforms by crowd sourcing ideas. (The
Economic Times)
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Leading ecommerce firms have already tied up with
nearly 7,000 weavers to sell their products on their platforms and the
number is growing keeping with rising demand. (The Economic
Times)
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Jabong FY15 sales cross Rs 1,000-cr, but
three-fold loss
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Brand Salman gets legal boost
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Brands riding on Bollywood heartthrob Salman Khan
are heaving a sigh of relief with the Bombay High Court overturning his
conviction for a 2002 hit-and-run case. (The Hindu
Businessline)
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Mobile application-only fashion retailer Myntra
has tentative plans to roll out offline experience zones in the next
12-18 months, its chief executive Ananth Narayanan said. (The
Economic Times)
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Myntra considering offline presence
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IRCTC crosses Rs. 20,000 crores in sales
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Revenue from online ticketing on Indian Railway
Catering and Tourism Corp crossed the Rs 20,000-crore mark during the
year to March 2015, nearly double the turnover of India's largest
online retailer Flipkart. (The Economic Times)
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Leading ecommerce firms have already tied up with
nearly 7,000 weavers to sell their products on their platforms and the
number is growing keeping with rising demand. (The Economic
Times)
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Ecommerce boost to traditional crafts
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Yoga guru's consumer goods company
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First Baba Ramdev became the face of yoga in
India. Now, he is taking on major global consumer goods companies with
products ranging from herbal tea and fruit juices to toiletries. (Quartz
India)
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Shelving its retail FDI plans, Walmart is focusing
its energies on mom-and-pop stores, small traders, hoteliers and
caterers in a cash-and-carry market pegged at $300 billion. (The
Hindu Businessline)
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Giant takes a wholesale bite
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Government eases local procurement
guidelines for single-brand retail
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The Indian government has made several significant
changes to the restrictions governing foreign investment into the
retail sector covering areas such as domestic sourcing and ecommerce
among others. (The Economic Times)
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Flipkart Internet, which runs the consumer-facing
portal of India's largest ecommerce business, posted a nearly four-time
increase in revenue and a 12-fold jump in net worth in fiscal 2015. (The
Economic Times)
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Flipkart Internet posts four-fold
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Mint Money Festival Special
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Mint Money takes a close look at different types
of festive offers in the segments of electronic gadgets, white goods,
apparel, jewellery, furniture, and even real estate and gold, and bring
to light some of the hidden details. (Mint)
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Urbanisation, a growing middle class, rising
disposable incomes and one of the youngest populations in the world
make India hard to ignore. (South China Morning Post)
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Fashion giants race to dress India's youth
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Adidas gets single-brand retail nod
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Adidas Group, the German sports footwear, hardware
and apparel maker, is gearing up to launch its own retail format stores
in India now that it has been allowed by the Indian government to
invest in single brand retail outlets. (DNA - Daily
News & Analysis)
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Generation Y has taken a liking to DIY (do it
yourself) kits. Helping them in this endeavour are some retail and food
startups, which themselves are experimenting with the concept. (The
Economic Times)
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Startups Popularising DIY Through Their
products
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Flipkart’s vendors miss out due to
logistics glitch
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Flipkart's 'Big Billion Days' sale has yet again
run into glitches this year, and this time the ecommerce giant is
tendering apologies to its sellers in Agra whose products have been
removed from the site for almost two days now due to delivery issues. (The
Economic Times)
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Fast deliveries and minimal glitches earn praise
in the online world; claim 3-7 times growth over last sale; mobiles and
consumer electronics products get lapped up; mobile app downloads run
into millions. (DNA)
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E-commerce firms get mega sale right this
year
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Riding fast on the e-way
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Amazon pips Flipkart and Snapdeal in the race for
unique visitors; online retail grows at 40%, physical at 10%. (Business
Standard)
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Cafe Coffee Day has built a vast franchise, but it
now needs to create a sustainable customer experience. (Outlook
Business)
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Can VG Siddhartha Continue To Sit Pretty?
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Hungry kya
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Delhi has a sunrise-to-sunset culture and to cater
to the hundreds of night owls who are reluctant to spend a bomb but
savour the delights under twinkling stars, there are a host of 24x7
food joints in the national Capital. Without so much as missing a beat,
Delhi hipsters will easily list out all of them. But quite noticeably,
there seems to be a transition with a new, vibrant food theme emerging.
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Kishore Biyani-led Future Lifestyle Fashions Ltd
has set up a design studio in London to tap into the vibrant fast
fashion market. (Mint)
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Future Lifestyle sets up design studio in
UK
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Online grocers to speed up delivery to
outrun kiranas
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Online grocers are working on shortening their
delivery time to less than two hours by building more delivery points
or roping in more partner stores in a bid to attract consumers who
prefer quicker kiranas to waiting for delivery of online orders. (The
Economic Times)
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Textiles major Arvind Ltd has created a new value
department chain branded 'Unlimited' by converting large stores of its
existing chain Megamart that has been struggling to shed its 'discount
format' image. (The Economic Times)
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Arvind rebrands Big Megamart stores to
new value format
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How far is hyperlocal business model
sustainable?
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On-demand services based hyperlocals are in vogue,
with investors and consumers both sitting up and taking note. But how
far is the business model sustainable? (Financial Express)
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Judging by the patronage showered upon them by
customers and investors alike, it would appear that hyperlocal
start-ups are all set to create the next big boom in the Indian retail
sector. But is it really all that rosy? Probably not, as can be amply
witnessed by acquisitions taking place in the nascent yet already
overcrowded market. (Financial Express)
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Hyperlocals may not have it so easy,
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Gap growing rapidly in India
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Gap, a recent entry into the Indian apparel
market, out performs other retailers with sales of Rs. 23 lakhs per day
in the first month of its south Delhi store. (Lace 'n'
Lingerie Magazine)
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Having earned a name in the handbags space, the
company is now looking to become a lifestyle brand across categories
like footwear and eventually, apparel. (Forbes India)
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Hidesign: Growing beyond handbags
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Pepperfry to open offline store soon
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Pepperfry has joined the list of e-tailers going
'hybrid' by recently leasing a 1,800 sq ft space at Linking Road,
Santacruz in Mumbai. (Indiaretailing.com)
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Mahindra Retail will rename its maternity and
childcare stores as 'Babyoye by Mahindra', dropping the name 'Mom
& Me' in favour of shopping website Babyoye. com, which it
acquired earlier this year. (The Economic Times)
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Mom & Me to be renamed 'Babyoye
by Mahindra'
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Fast-moving at ration shops
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Biyani wants to sell deodorants, mosquito
repellents and floor cleaners, besides fairness creams and noodles, at
the hundreds of PDS outlets across Rajasthan. (The Hindu
Businessline)
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The Rajasthan government has signed an agreement
with Kishore Biyani's Future Group, best known for its retail chains
Pantaloons and Big Bazaar, to launch the new Annapurna Bhandar Yojana. (Scroll)
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Future Group public distribution deal
with Rajasthan
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E-tailers pitch for 4G for enhanced
shopping experience
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India's increasingly app-only online marketplaces
are promising richer shopping experience when 4G, the mobile telecom
technology that offers quick data downloads, gains more traction. (The
Economic Times)
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